Thoughts on Elite: Dangerous?

[TopWargamer]

So, I'm thinking about buying Elite: Dangerous and playing that until Star Citizen is fully released, or at least until most of the goodies are available. So, has anybody here played Elite: Dangerous? If so, how do you like it?

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

i saw this video recently , might help you 

[CatCloud]

So, I'm thinking about buying Elite: Dangerous and playing that until Star Citizen is fully released, or at least until most of the goodies are available. So, has anybody here played Elite: Dangerous? If so, how do you like it?

Its...empty.

I´ve been jumping in and out but there really is nothing that is grasping me in that game...yet.

i had similar plans for it as i had with SC: Be a Miner/Manufacturer. However all you can do with the Ore is selling it..kewl and the Profit is shit, maybe if you get a bigger ship so you can get ore faster but with the Eagle/Hauler/Basic Ship..dont bother....

 

I´ve yet to try the co op in the game so no comments on that part.

 

Combat is nice, its fun. although they might want to flesh out the details on the equipments..

 

Ships are ok, not as fancy or agile as those in Star Citizen but they are more Durable,

Pro Tip, dont rush to buying a bigger combat ship (Viper and above), make sure you got cash to Put on something better then the stock Equipment...otherwise your dead in a fight.

Pro tip 2: Basic ship sucks ass IMO

Pro tip 3: Hauler is a good Transport ship in the beginning, and the Eagle is a Great Combat ship! not very durable but its somewhat more agile than the others.

 

Hmm...exploration..well billions of system im sure but they are for the most part the same thing but with a different name. i haven't explorered that much but ..yeah, no Wormholes, or jump points,  so if you were hoping for something at the EVE level then nope sorry not even half of that, maybe in the future.

 

Missions...boring. moving on,

 

Bounty hunting, ok so this is probably the most effective way as far as i know early game to cash up. you fly around, look for "unknown signal" warp in, Scan ships and se if they are "WANTED" then shot them, return to a station and cash in. GG

You could always rob people of there Cargo as well. there is something that lets you "hack" a Unshielded ship and force it to eject its cargo" (If it has any)

 

PvP, i only had 1 encounter...i think? maybe it was a NPC..im not sure. but yeah i was flying in super cruice and got "dragged" out of it then had a fight.

There is a "tractor beam" that i forgot the name of that lets you Stop ships flying in Super Cruise and then you can attack them. it takes some times for the Engines to be able to jump again so no need to worry about them flying away again.

Btw, ive never used it because i didn't feel like it.

 

If your getting Beamed then you have to fly towards a..."escape vector" but its not that easy. the ship is shaking and you have to align your ship to the best of your abilities towards the escape point to escape, if you fail..well prep them guns or full power to the engines and hope you can outrun and Warp away.

 

Communication... I have NO clue how it works..AT ALL!

 

Conclusion/TL;DR: It Lacks content and i´m not sure why they released it in its current state.

 

If you have any more questions, ask away.

[typographie]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/01/17/the-arc-structure-of-elite-dangerous/

This might be an interesting read if you're considering jumping in to it right now.

[Guest]

I've had the game for 2 weeks now. I played about 10 hours and I really enjoy it. In 10 hours, I've had one dogfight, but I didn't buy the game for space combats. I've been cruising around in my Sidewinder delivering messages, packages and doing some market transactions. I understand why people says it is "empty"...however the galaxy is so vast, that you can't run into a vessel all the time. Most of the time I see ships while in supercruise going from one system to another or filling up fuel using stars. Graphics are very nice and the music in supercruise is relaxing.

 

Every time I play this game, I play it for at least 2 hours straight. Headphones on, lights off and kids at bed. Nobody disturbs me and it is my relaxing time.

 

Is it worth 60USD ? I don't know yet. I've had fun so far and I am already planning which ship, upgrades to get next as well as which systems to visit. I like long journeys and I can keep traveling for 30 minutes without being bored. During these 30 minutes, I discover new stars, planets and avoid pirates who try to get me out of supercruise.

 

However, the graphics are very well optimized. I'm running 1080p Medium on a 5 years old XFX 5770 and it is 55-60fps most of the time.

 

While I've been more on exploring with the Sidewinder, I'm thinking about getting a Viper and be a bit more aggressive. I would like to get rewards for killing wanted people. There are plenty of them in the anarchy systems. Sidewinder (or eventually Adder) for exploring and Viper for more action

[Camul]

I haven't played it nearly enough to give any sort of in-depth review, so I'll just say I'm having a lot of fun with it. Although, in it's current state I really doubt it'll hold my attention once SC is released. But there are hopefully going to be a lot of significant content released as paid expansions, which hopefully aren't too expensive.